Skirt-supporter.



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Patented Apr. 1, I902. J. MATHISDN.

SKIRT SUPPORTER.

(Application filed July 13, 1901.)

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JOSEPH MATHISON, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

SKERT SUPPORTER.

SPEGEFIGATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 696,650, dated April 1, 1902.. Application filed July 13, 1901. Serial No. 68,227. (No model.)

To (ZZZ whom it 777/151 concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH MATHIsoN, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Skirt-Supporters, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a garment-fas tenerfor securing together ladies waists and skirts.

Figure 1 represents a front elevation showing one embodiment of my invention. Fig. 2 represents an end elevation thereof. Fig. 3 represents a front elevation showing the fastener attached to a waist. Fig. 4 represents a sectional view showing the fastener attached to a waist and skirt. Figs. 5 and 6 represent, respectively, a rear and an end elevation showing another embodiment of my invention.

The same reference characters indicate the same parts in all the figures.

In the drawings, Figs. 1 to 4, 1 represents a skirt-supporter made of a single piece of wire bent to form a transverse middle portion or cross-bar 2, a pair of depending hooks 3 3, having upwardly-projecting points or spurs 4t 4, which lie in front of the cross-bar 2, and upwardly and outwardly projecting loops 5 5, connecting the cross-bar 2 with the hooks 3 3. The lower rear parts of the loops 5 5 where they merge with the cross-bar are separated from the shank portions of the hooks 3 3 by spaces 6 6, into which the material of the waist 7 passes, as shown in Figs. 3 and 4.

The fastener 1 is attached to the waist or upper garment 7 by passing the hooks 3 3 through the material of the waist first upwardly to the lower ends of the spur portions of said hooks and then downwardly to the upper ends of the shank portions of the hooks, where-upon the fastener will be supported on the waist by the upper bonds of its loops 5 5 resting on the margins of the holes in the fabric through which the hooks have passed. The hooks 3 3 then lie on the outside of the waist 7, While the cross-bar 2 and the major portions of the loops 5 5 lie on the inside thereof. The skirt 8, Fig. 4, may then be supported from the fastener by im paling it upon the spurs of the hooks 3 3.

It will be seen that the loops 5 5 constitute hooks which serve as a means for supporting the device from a piece of fabric and that the device as a whole consists of a single piece of wire having a central portion or crossbar 2, two upper loops 5 5, formed at the ends of the central portion, and two lower hooks 3 3, depending from the upper loops and provided with upwardly-projecting penetrating points or spurs.

In Figs. 5 and 6 I show a'modification which consists in providing a fastener of the character described with a shield designed to protect the person or undergarments of the wearerfrom the inward pressure of the lower ends of the hooks 3 3, said shield, as shown, consisting of a plate 9, lying in the rear of and covering the whole of the fastener and attached thereto by means of a lip 10) on the upper edge of the plate bent around the crossbar 2 0fthe fastener.

I clairn 1. An appliance of the character specified comprising a single piece of wire having a horizontal central portion and double-acting hooks at the ends of the central portion, said hooks being connected with the said central portion by outwardly and oppositely bent loops adapted to support the appliance from a piece of fabric and having upwardly-projecting penetrating points or spurs.

2. An appliance of the character specified comprising a single piece of wire having a central portion, two upper loops formed at the ends of the central portion and bent outwardly in opposite directions, and two lower hooks forming continuations of and depending from the upper loops and provided with penetrating points or spurs.

3. A skirt-supporter comprisinga wire member having a central portion with an integral loop at each end and a downwardly and upwardly extending hook integral with each loop, and a plate secured to said member and forming a shield in the rear of the hooks, the said hooks bearing against the face of the plate.

In testimony whereof I have affixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOSEPH MATI-IISON.

Witnesses:

E. BATCHELDER, O. F. BROWN. 

